Comments by "Yo2" (@yo2trader539) on "TAKASHii"
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@carolsakaguchi3739 As for Japanese communication, a lot of it is non-verbal. We can communicate among ourselves or show approval/disapproval without verbally expressing it. The fact that you can't understand it suggests that your understanding of Japanese language, culture, or norms is insufficient. In other words, you're still a tourist.
There are plenty of foreigners who do well in Japan, but they are "native" in terms of language, culture, and mindset, which is the essence of being Japanese. Regardless of nationality, I believe we do judge people by skill, class, upbringing, education-level, personality, etc. Obviously, we don't open up to strangers who we don't know, trust, or find interesting....but that's like half of the world.
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@somerandomchannel382 Japan exists for the sake of Japanese citizens. So if you're not a citizen, there will be natural limitations. If you're a Japanese citizen without proper Japanese education, there will be limitations within Japanese society as well.
And if you're a foreign national without any formal Japanese education, unless you have advanced professional or academic skills that Japan values and needs, there will be far less career opportunities. It will be near impossible to be a lawyer, doctor, public school teacher, or architect in Japan without having received formal education in Japanese.
The issue we have these days is that there are a number of children of foreign nationals who were born and raised in Japan, like the guy in this video. I recall seeing a girl in a documentary, who is half Nikkei-Brazilian and half-Indonesian and born & raised in Japan, and her childhood dream/goal was to become a police officer in Japan (like her grandfather in Brazil). But Japan doesn't allow foreign nationals to enter its Police Academy. Her dream would've been possible if her parents naturalized along with the kids. But they didn't or couldn't, and the girl doesn't want to give up her foreign passports. So she is still a foreign national with legal residency due to her Japanese ancestry. She now runs a school in Japan assisting foreign-children learning Japanese.
Conversely, there have been naturalized elected officials for decades. There is only one definition the Japanese government uses in determining who is Japanese or not, i.e. Japanese citizenship.
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Japan has always been selective. Immigration rules were designed to discourage people who couldn't survive in Japan (or people who we didn't want). For instance, a foreign/international student who graduated from a Japanese university or grad school will almost automatically receive a 5-year work visa, because they are fluent in language/culture, educated, and most likely to succeed.
Conversely, Japanese immigration will only issue 1 year visas (or sometimes less) to those who have limited language fluency or technical skills. Japan's worst fear is exactly Europe, where we can see ethnic ghettos, Islamic extremists, gangs, or homeless migrants living off of handouts. Limited language and technical skill, usually results in limited probability to succeed. The concept of new visa schemes such as J-FIND and J-SKIP are based on this belief that we need to attract more educated or highly-skilled professionals.
In reality, we've experienced the increase in crime and violence for decades (which is why Ministry of Justice, Immigration, and Police are always very conservative when it comes to visa restrictions). It was mostly crimes by Koreans in the 20th century, particularly after WWII and Korean War period. They were later usurped by Chinese who started coming around the 1980s and 1990s. Iranians came too but they were in heroin business so most of them were asked to leave. Nikkei-Brazilians, Nikkei-Peruvians were always given special preference over visa allotments because of their Japanese ancestry.
Currently, Chinese and Vietnamese make up 60% of all crimes committed by foreign-nationals in Japan. The rest are mostly Koreans, Brazilians, and Filipino. Nowadays, a lot of attention is on the ethnic Kurds in Saitama. They're only 2,000 Kurdish asylum-seekers in Japan, yet they create so much chaos and havoc, locals desperately want them deported.
Around the same number of Ukrainian refugees are currently in Japan, yet they cause absolutely no problem and are well liked. I don't know how to explain the stark contrast in their respective behaviors. But I do suspect that change in Refugee Law was targeted for easier deportation of declined applicants.
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That's a good observation. Over-tourism or 観光公害 ("Tourism Pollution" in Japanese) is a real issue for locations like Kyoto, Kamakura, or Hida-Takayama. Local residents clearly want less foreign-tourists, because they are simply overwhelmed.
Most of us were quite happy when the country was closed to foreign visitors because we were able get around the country with relative ease. And we didn't have to deal with increase in crime, drunk tourists, poor behaviors, etc. So nobody is crying that China banned group tourism to Japan. People actually feel relieved, as Chinese group tourists are the worst. (The rich ones are very sophisticated in taste.)
Tourism and hospitality industries do require foreign-tourists, but I think there needs to be an annual cap. We just don't have the capacity or infrastructure to deal with 30 million visitors per year, especially when many of them are concentrated in certain cities/regions. And frankly, when I visit Kyoto and hear only foreign languages, it's really disappointing. It completely destroys the ambiance of Kyoto. I've no idea how countries like UK, France, Greece, or Italy are able to handle all the tourists from all over the world.
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Frankly, it's to reduce government paperwork on visa renewals too. Otherwise, the Ministry of Justice will need more staff/budget.
As of June end 2024, 3.58 million foreign national were residing in Japan. 902,203 are issued a Permanent Visa or are Special Permanent Residents (i.e. Descendants of migrants from Taiwan and Korean peninsula prior to their independence.); 425,714 on Technical Trainee Visa; 394,295 on Work Visa; 368,589 on Student Visa; and 283,204 on Spousal/Family Visa. In other words, around 1/3 of all foreign-nationals residing in Japan are issued a Permanent Visa. And yes, it gets revoked all the time if the terms are not met.
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Perhaps a translation issue. He said 『気が強い』, which is a difficult phrase to translate. "Aggressive" won't be the word I would use to translate it. It can have a wide connotation from strong-willed, assertive, masculine, entitled, or sell-centered, depending on context. It's a description on personality for both men and women, and has no relation with work/careers. We often see these traits in professional athletes like football/baseball players, or with entrepreneurs. In case you don't know, most women in Japan work too. And if you knew any of women in Asia, you'll never be calling them submissive, vulnerable, or weak.
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Russians are respected in Japan for their literature, classical music, ballet, ice-skating, architecture, cuisine and culture, so I don't think Russians are seen the same as Americans. We love Baseball, McDonald's, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell...but it's hardly the same.
And you have to read between the lines. Russians (and Eastern Europeans & Central Asians) are considered pretty in Japan because of their varying degree of Eurasian admixture. They're also preferred culturally as they assimilate/adapt far better to Japan, especially since they're not liberal/woke like some people from North America and Western Europe. And if you flip the answers, you should notice certain countries/regions/continents are purposely absent by almost all the interviewees, which unintentionally displays our racial bias and cultural preferences.
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@2WheelsGood.01 We have 200,000 Brazilians and 50,000 Peruvians living/working in Japan, many of whom are Japanese Descendants and their spouses. The guy who said Spain in this video is a half-Peruvian YouTuber who speaks Spanish.
But you're correct about cultural differences. Soft-spoken, calm, polite, classy, and elegant are traits often associated with beauty standards in Japan. We do see a difference in children of Nikkei-Brazilians and Peruvians who were educated in Japan, and those who were raised in Brazil/Peru. Differences in mannerism, vibe, personality, fashion, make-up, hairstyle stand out.
Colombians are known to be pretty in Japan too. Eurasian admixture (or Europe and Indigenous admixture in the case of Latin America) would generally fit Japanese beauty standards, some more so than others. If I recall the wife of a former GK for Japan's national team was spotted on Japanese media a few times for her beauty. She's half-Colombian/Japanese.
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People from Brazil struggle in adjusting to Japan, more so than those from other regions. We don't know why but in contrast we see Russians/Slavic people having a far easier time adapting to Japan.
From what we've experienced in the past decades, many of the Nikkei-Brazilians (i.e Japanese Descendants) failed to learn the language and culture and adapt to Japan, which was a stark contrast to Japanese Descendants from other countries. Some Nikkei-Brazilians cannot survive outside of the Brazilian hub in Japan, and require everything from translators to special schools. Lack of language fluency, transferable professionals limits their potential in Japan as well. For reasons unknown, Nikkei-Peruvians are far better assimilated to Japan than the Nikkei-Brazilians. (Nearly 200,000 Nikkei-Brazilians and 50,000 Nikkei Peruvians and their spouses live in Japan.)
Japanese society was so unimpressed with the cultural assimilation and social integration of the 3rd Generation Nikkei-Brazilians (i.e. SANSEI or grandchildren of Japanese emigrants), Japanese government requires basic language requirements from 4th Generation Descendants (YONSEI) to live and work in Japan. Traffic accidents, theft, car-jacking, shop-lifting, drugs, etc is higher in areas with high concentration of Brazilian-nationals. And crime rate is especially high by Brazilian husbands of Japanese Descendants. Local branches of Japanese police have special task forces tracking and monitoring them.
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